Femoral neck fractures can be classified according to ... The optimal timing of such surgery, however, is not controversial. Polytrauma patients should have early long-bone stabilization followed ...

Surgeons should identify high-risk patients and surgical risk factors ... to just see a little bit of femur and miss that neck cut. Those early postoperative fractures are almost all missed ...

Hip fractures in older adults can lead to serious complications, disability and even death. Traditionally, orthopaedic ...

A new $10.8 million multicenter clinical trial co-led by Gerard Slobogean, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Orthopaedics ...

Kristina Schmidt, 24, developed agonizing pain in her right hip that “felt like someone was tearing her leg off” and ...

The University of Southern California has been approved for $10.8 million in research funding by the Patient-Centered ...

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1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of ...

Few studies have assessed its use following hip fracture surgery. The new clinical trial enrolled 50 older adults undergoing hip hemiarthroplasty for isolated intracapsular femoral neck fractures.